US Patent Issued to NICOVENTURES TRADING on May 13 for "Smoking article filter and insertable filter unit therefor" (British, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,408, issued on May 13, was assigned to NICOVENTURES TRADING Ltd. (London).

"Smoking article filter and insertable filter unit therefor" was invented by Graham Penrose (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Michael Malthouse (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), David Wake (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Gary Fulcher (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Michael Simpson (Sibuya-ku, Japan), Aaron Brookbank (London), Gordon Grierson (London), Jon Hindley (London), John Sampson (London), Rabya Khan-Dar (London), Karl Kaljura (London), Lean Ho Ong (London), John Richardson (London), John Major (London) and Richard Young (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office:...